CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20169
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. The USB subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor, related to __usb_get_extra_descriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.16.63)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.4.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.88)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.9)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.9 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.9 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry